glare
1 Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
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to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
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Archaic. to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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(intr) to stare angrily; glower
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(tr) to express by glowering
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(intr) (of light, colour, etc) to be very bright and intense
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(intr) to be dazzlingly ornamented or garish
noun
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an angry stare
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a dazzling light or brilliance
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garish ornamentation or appearance; gaudiness
adjective
Related Words
See shine 1. Glare, glower, gloat all have connotations of emotion that accompany an intense gaze. To glare is to look piercingly or angrily: A tiger glares at its prey. To glower is to look fiercely and threateningly, as from wrath; it suggests a scowl along with a glare: to glower at a mischievous child. To gloat meant originally to look with exultation, avaricious or malignant, on something or someone: a tyrant gloating over the helplessness of his victim. Today, however, it may simply imply inner exultation.
Other Word Forms
- glareless adjective
- glary adjective
Etymology
Origin of glare1
First recorded in 1250–1300; (for the verb) Middle English glaren; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German glaren; akin to glass (compare Old English glæren “glassy”); noun derivative of the verb
Origin of glare2
First recorded in 1560–70; special use of glare 1
Example Sentences
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The courtroom was packed and the trial was in the full glare of national media.
From BBC
He presumably didn't want their first steps to be in the full glare of the attention and judgement that comes with being a member of one of the world's most famous families.
From BBC
My father, who does not look at all like Piston Honda, gave me a glare that made me think military school might be in my future.
The differences in tone and substance between the president’s address and the speeches at the Press Club were glaring.
From Salon
Aeva’s lidar is a little different from others, using “frequency modulated continuous wave” technology, which means it’s more immune to glare and sunlight and easier to use to calculate the velocity of objects.
From Barron's
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